IZA Discussion Papers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5836

Did Growth and Reforms Increase Citizens' Support for the Transition?

Roberto Golinelli, Riccardo Rovelli

revised version published in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2013, 30, 112-137

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5738

The Value of Business Networks in Emerging Economies: An Analysis of Firms' External Financing Opportunities

Oluwarotimi Owolabi, Sarmistha Pal

published as 'Does business networking boost firms' external financing opportunities? Evidence from Central and Eastern Europe' in: Applied Financial Economics, 2013, 23 (5), 415-432

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5610

Can Economic Crises Be Good for Your Diet?

Ralitza Dimova, Ira N. Gang, Monnet Benoit Patrick Gbakou, Daniel Hoffman

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5588

Labor Market Adjustment: Is Russia Different?

Vladimir Gimpelson, Rostislav Kapeliushnikov

published in: The Oxford Handbook of the Russian Economy, Oxford, OUP, 2013

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5383

Why Are Household Incomes More Unequally Distributed in China than in Russia?

Björn Anders Gustafsson, Shi Li, Ludmila Nivorozhkina

published in: Cambridge Journal of Economics, 2011, 35 (5), 897-920

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5365

Evolution of Employment Protection Legislation in the USSR, CIS and Baltic States, 1985-2009

Alexander Muravyev

revised version published in: Europe-Asia Studies, 2014, 66 (8), 1270-1294

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4919

Economic Reform, Education Expansion, and Earnings Inequality for Urban Males in China, 1988-2007

Xin Meng, Kailing Shen, Sen Xue

published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2013, 41 (1), 227–244

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4872

Explaining Rising Returns to Education in Urban China in the 1990s

Xuejun Liu, Albert Park, Yaohui Zhao

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4673

How Important Are Labor Market Institutions for Labor Market Performance in Transition Countries?

Hartmut Lehmann, Alexander Muravyev

revised version published in: Economics of Transition, 2012, 20 (2), 235-269

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4483

Prospective NATO or EU Membership and Institutional Change in Transition Countries

Ansgar H. Belke, Ingo Bordon, Inna Melnykovska, Rainer Schweickert

published in: Economics of Transition, 2011, 19 (4), 667-692

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4454

20 Years of German Unification: Evidence on Income Convergence and Heterogeneity

Tilman Brück, Heiko Peters

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4277

The Responsiveness of Remittances to the Oil Price: The Case of the GCC

George S Naufal, Ali Termos

published in: OPEC Energy Review, 2009, 33 (3/4), 184-197

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4257

Does Labor Supply Respond to a Flat Tax? Evidence from the Russian Tax Reform

Denvil Duncan, Klara Sabirianova Peter

revised version published as 'Does Labour Supply Respond to a Flat Tax?" in: Economics of Transition, 2010, 18 (2), 365 - 404

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4233

Inequality and Volatility Moderation in Russia: Evidence from Micro-Level Panel Data on Consumption and Income

Yuriy Gorodnichenko, Klara Sabirianova Peter, Dmitriy Stolyarov

revised version published in: Review of Economic Dynamics, 2010, 13 (1), 209 - 237

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4224

Transition Fatigue? Cross-Country Evidence from Micro Data

Riccardo Rovelli, Anzelika Zaiceva

substantially revised version published as 'Did Support for Economic and Political Reforms Increase During the Post-Communist Transition, and If So, Why?' in: The Economics of Transition, 2013, 21 (2), 193-240.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4223

Income Tax Flattening: Does It Help to Reduce the Shadow Economy?

Klara Sabirianova Peter

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4208

"It's not that I'm a racist, it's that they are Roma": Roma Discrimination and Returns to Education in South Eastern Europe

Niall O'Higgins

revised version published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2010, 31(2) 163-187

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4204

Childcare, Eldercare, and Labor Force Participation of Married Women in Urban China: 1982 - 2000

Margaret Maurer-Fazio, Rachel Connelly, Chen Lan, Lixin Tang

published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2011, 46 (2), 261 - 294

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4148

A Comparison and Decomposition of Reform-Era Labor Force Participation Rates of China's Ethnic Minorities and Han Majority

Margaret Maurer-Fazio, James W. Hughes, Dandan Zhang

published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2010, 31 (2), 138-162

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4142

Temporary Labour Migration and Welfare at the New European Fringe: A Comparison of Five Eastern European Countries

Alexander M. Danzer, Barbara Dietz

substantially revised version published as 'Labour Migration from Eastern Europe and the EU’s Quest for Talents' in: Journal of Common Market Studies, 2014, 52 (2), 183-199

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4113

The Finnish Great Depression: From Russia with Love

Yuriy Gorodnichenko, Enrique G. Mendoza, Linda L. Tesar

published in: American Economic Review 2012, 102(4), 1619-1643

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4060

Happiness and Growth the World Over: Time Series Evidence on the Happiness-Income Paradox

Richard A. Easterlin, Laura Angelescu McVey

published in: R.A. Easterlin, Happiness, Growth, and the Life Cycle, Chapter 5, Oxford University Press, 2011

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3958

Helping Hand or Grabbing Hand? State Bureaucracy and Privatization Effectiveness

J. David Brown, John S. Earle, Scott Gehlbach

published in: American Political Science Review, 2009, 103(2), 264-283

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3683

Understanding the Contributions of Reallocation to Productivity Growth: Lessons from a Comparative Firm-Level Analysis

J. David Brown, John S. Earle

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3527

Why Populist Democracy Promotes Market Liberalization

Pauline Grosjean, Claudia Senik

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3484

The Emerging Aversion to Inequality: Evidence from Poland 1992–2005

Irena Grosfeld, Claudia Senik

published in: Economics of Transition, 2010, 18 (1), 1–26

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3457

The Determinants of Female Labour Supply in Belarus

Francesco Pastore, Alina Verashchagina

published in: Ravi Kanbur and Jan Svejnar (eds.), Labour Markets and Economic Development, London: Routledge, 2009

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3454

The Economics of Communist Party Membership: The Curious Case of Rising Numbers and Wage Premium during China’s Transition

Simon Appleton, John Knight, Lina Song, Qingjie Xia

published in: Journal of Development Studies, 2009, 45, (2), 256-275

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3428

The Gender Earnings Gap inside a Russian Firm: First Evidence from Personnel Data – 1997 to 2002

Thomas Dohmen, Hartmut Lehmann, Anzelika Zaiceva

published in: Zeitschrift für ArbeitsmarktForschung/Journal for Labour Market Research, 2008, 41 (2-3), 157-180.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3409

Lost in Transition: Life Satisfaction on the Road to Capitalism

Richard A. Easterlin

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2009, 71 (2), 130-145

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3350

Wage Policies of a Russian Firm and the Financial Crisis of 1998: Evidence from Personnel Data – 1997 to 2002

Thomas Dohmen, Hartmut Lehmann, Mark E Schaffer

revised version published in: Industrial Labor Relations Review, 2014, 67 (2), 504-531.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3282

Are Oligarchs Productive? Theory and Evidence

Yuriy Gorodnichenko, Yegor Grygorenko

published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2008, 36 (1), 17-42

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3269

Informal Employment Relationships and Labor Market Segmentation in Transition Economies: Evidence from Ukraine

Hartmut Lehmann, Norberto Pignatti

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3267

Myth and Reality of Flat Tax Reform: Micro Estimates of Tax Evasion Response and Welfare Effects in Russia

Yuriy Gorodnichenko, Jorge Martinez-Vazquez, Klara Sabirianova Peter

published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2009, 117(3), 504-554

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3228

Determinants of Poverty during Transition: Household Survey Evidence from Ukraine

Tilman Brück, Alexander M. Danzer, Alexander Muravyev, Natalia Danzer

revised version published as 'Poverty during Transition: Household Survey Evidence from Ukraine' in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2010, 38 (2), 123-145

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3202

From the Shortage of Jobs to the Shortage of Skilled Workers: Labor Markets in the EU New Member States

Jan Rutkowski

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3152

Occupational Gender Composition and Wages in Romania: From Planned Equality to Market Inequality?

Daniela Andrén, Thomas Andrén

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3079

When Does FDI Have Positive Spillovers? Evidence from 17 Emerging Market Economies

Yuriy Gorodnichenko, Jan Svejnar, Katherine Terrell

published in: Klaus Liebscher, Josef Christl, Peter Mooslechner (eds.), Foreign Direct Investment in Europe: A Changing Landscape, 2007

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2889

Should Market Liberalization Precede Democracy? Causal Relations between Political Preferences and Development

Pauline Grosjean, Claudia Senik

published as "Democracy, Market Liberalization and Political Preferences" in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2011, 93(1), 365-381

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2801

How to Increase R&D in Transition Economies? Evidence from Slovenia

Polona Domadenik, Janez Prašnikar, Jan Svejnar

published in: Review of Development Economics, 12(1), 193-208

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2798

Unemployment in East and West Europe

Daniel Münich, Jan Svejnar

published in: Labour Economics, 2007, 14 (4), 681-694

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2796

When Does Transition Increase the Gender Wage Gap? An Application to Belarus

Francesco Pastore, Alina Verashchagina

published in: Economics of Transition, 2011, 19 (2), 333-369

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2791

China in Light of the Performance of Central and East European Economies

Jan Svejnar

published in: L. Brandt and T. Rawski (eds), China’s Great Economic Transformation, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2678

Earnings, Schooling and Economic Reform: Econometric Evidence from Hungary (1986-2004)

Nauro F. Campos, Dean Jolliffe

published in: World Bank Economic Review, 2007, 21 (3), 509-526

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2644

The Polish Wage Inequality Explosion

Andrew T. Newell, Mieczyslaw Socha

published in: Economics of Transition, 2007, 15 (4), 733-758

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2638

Does Reform Work? An Econometric Examination of the Reform-Growth Puzzle

Ian Babetskii, Nauro F. Campos

published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2011, 39 (2), 140-158

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2620

A New Regional Geography of Europe? The Labour Market Impact of the EU Enlargements

Floro Ernesto Caroleo, Francesco Pastore

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2533

Beautiful Serbia

Holger Bonin, Ulf Rinne

revised version published as 'Beautiful Serbia’ - objective and subjective outcomes of active labour market policy in a transition economy" in: Economics of Transition, 2014, 22(1), 43-67

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2511

Labor Market Dynamics in Romania During a Period of Economic Liberalization

Benoit Dostie, David E. Sahn

updated version: visit SSRN

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2502

Educational Inputs and Outcomes Before the Transition from Communism

John Beirne, Nauro F. Campos

published in: Economics of Transition, 2007, 15 (1), 57-76

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2476

Where to Work? The Role of the Household in Explaining Gender Differences in Labour Market Outcomes

Ralitza Dimova, Ira N. Gang, John Landon-Lane

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2453

Employment Effects of Privatisation and Foreign Acquisition of Chinese State-Owned Enterprises

Yundan Gong, Holger Görg, Sara Maioli

published in: International Journal of the Economics of Business, 2007, 14(2), 197-214

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2344

Inequality and Growth in Rural China: Does Higher Inequality Impede Growth?

Dwayne Benjamin, Loren Brandt, John T. Giles

published as 'Did Higher Inequality Impede Growth in Rural China?' in: Economic Journal, 2011, 121 (557), 1281-1309

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2258

Pulls, Pushes and Entitlement Failures in Labor Markets: Does the State of Development Matter?

Sumon K. Bhaumik, Ralitza Dimova, Jeffrey B. Nugent

published as 'Off-farm Labour Supply and Labour Markets in Rapidly Changing Circumstances: Bulgaria during Transition' in: Economic Systems, 2011, 35 (3), 378 - 389

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2248

Modernizing China's Growth Paradigm

Eswar Prasad, Raghuram G. Rajan

published in: American Economic Review, 2006, 96 (2), 331-336

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2148

Enterprise Restructuring in Belarus

Marina Bakanova, Saul Estrin, Igor Pelipas, Sergei Pukovich

published in Saul Estrin, Grzegorz Kolodko and Milica Uvalic (eds.), Transition and Beyond: A Tribute to Mario Nuti, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2118

Economic Returns to Communist Party Membership: Evidence from Urban Chinese Twins

Hongbin Li, Pak-Wai Liu, Junsen Zhang, Ning Ma

published in: Economic Journal, 2007, 117 (523), 1504 - 1520

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2066

The Caring Hand that Cripples: The East German Labor Market After Reunification (Detailed Version)

Dennis J. Snower, Christian Merkl

short version published in: American Economic Review, 2006, 96 (2), 375-382

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1987

Public Sector Pay and Corruption: Measuring Bribery from Micro Data

Yuriy Gorodnichenko, Klara Sabirianova Peter

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2007, 91 (5-6), 963-991

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1961

Nonstandard Forms and Measures of Employment and Unemployment in Transition: A Comparative Study of Estonia, Romania, and Russia

J. David Brown, John S. Earle, Vladimir Gimpelson, Rostislav Kapeliushnikov, Hartmut Lehmann, Álmos Telegdy, Irina Vantu, Ruxandra Visan, Alexandru Voicu

published in: Comparative Economic Studies, 2006, 48 (3), 435-457

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1958

Reassessing the Standard of Living in the Soviet Union: An Analysis Using Archival and Anthropometric Data

Elizabeth Brainerd

published in: Journal of Economic History, 2010, 70 (1), 83 - 117

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1867

The Determinants of Asset Stripping: Theory and Evidence from the Transition Economies

Nauro F. Campos, Francesco Giovannoni

published in: Journal of Law and Economics, 2006, 49 (2), 681-706

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1839

Job Search Monitoring and Unemployment Duration in Hungary: Evidence from a Randomised Control Trial

John Micklewright, Gyula Nagy

revised version published as 'The effect of monitoring unemployment insurance recipients on unemployment duration: Evidence from a field experiment' in: Labour Economics, 2010, 17 (1), 180-187

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1826

Trade Liberalization and Employment Effects in Ukraine

Atanas Christev, Olga Kupets, Hartmut Lehmann

published in: Comparative Economic Studies, 2008, 50 (2), 318-340

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1738

What Is Behind Stagnant Unemployment in Ukraine: The Role of the Informal Sector

Olga Kupets

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1707

Job Creation and Job Destruction in Estonia: Labour Reallocation and Structural Changes

Jaan Masso, Raul Eamets, Kaia Philips

published in: H. Hannula, S. Radoševic and N. von Tunzelmann (eds.) , Estonia, the New EU Economy, Building a Baltic Miracle. Ashgate Publishing, 2006, pp. 105-142

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1565

Mind the Gap: Unemployment in the New EU Regions

Anna Maria Ferragina, Francesco Pastore

published in: Journal of Economic Surveys, 2008, 22 (1), 73-113

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1485

The Distribution of Wages in Poland, 1992-2002

Andrew T. Newell, Mieczyslaw Socha

published as Chapter 11 of World Bank, "Poland: Growth, Employment and Living Standards in Pre-Accession Poland", Volume 2, 2004

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1393

Do Markets Favor Women's Human Capital More than Planners?

Daniel Münich, Jan Svejnar, Katherine Terrell

published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2005, 33 (2), 278-298

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1360

Computer Adoption and Returns in Transition

Oluyemisi Kuku, Peter F. Orazem, Rajesh Singh

published in: Economics of Transition, 2007, 15 (1), 33-56

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1349

Job Reallocation and Productivity Growth in the Ukrainian Transition

J. David Brown, John S. Earle

published in: Comparative Economic Studies, 2006, 48 (2), 229-251

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1343

What Makes Small Firms Grow? Finance, Human Capital, Technical Assistance, and the Business Environment in Romania

J. David Brown, John S. Earle, Dana Lup

published in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2005, 54 (1), 33-70

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1297

Worker Displacement during the Transition: Experience from Slovenia

Peter F. Orazem, Milan Vodopivec, Ruth Wu

published in: Economics of Transition, 2005, 13 (2), 311-340

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1201

Reforms and Productivity Dynamics in Chinese State-Owned Enterprises

Peter McGoldrick, Patrick Paul Walsh

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1182

Returns to Skills and the Speed of Reforms: Evidence from Central and Eastern Europe, China, and Russia

Belton M. Fleisher, Klara Sabirianova Peter, Xiaojun Wang

published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2005, 33 (2), 351-370

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1151

Russian Cities in Transition: The Impact of Market Forces in the 1990s

Ira N. Gang, Robert C. Stuart

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1140

The Distribution of Wages in Belarus

Francesco Pastore, Alina Verashchagina

published in: Comparative Economic Studies, 2006, 48 (3), 351-376

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1139

Factor Endowment and Market Size in EU-CEE Trade: Would Human Capital Change the Actual Quality Trade Patterns?

Anna Maria Ferragina, Francesco Pastore

published in: Eastern European Economics, 2005, 43 (1), 5-33

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1074

Regional Unemployment and its Persistence in Transition Countries

Fabian Bornhorst, Simon Commander

published in: Economics of Tranistion and Institutional Change, 2006, 14 (2), 269-288

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1044

Economic Reforms and Productivity-Enhancing Reallocation in the Post-Soviet Transition

J. David Brown, John S. Earle

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1039

Institutional Uncertainty and European Social Union: Impacts on Job Creation and Destruction in the CEECs

Ansgar H. Belke, Matthias Göcke, Martin Hebler

published in: Journal of Policy Modeling, 2005, 27 (3), 345-354

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1038

Exchange Rate Volatility and Employment Growth: Empirical Evidence from the CEE Economies

Ansgar H. Belke, Ralph Setzer

published in: Economic and Social Review, 2003, 34 (3), 267-292

IZA Discussion Paper No. 986

Do the Best Go West? An Analysis of the Self-Selection of Employed East-West Migrants in Germany

Herbert Brücker, Parvati Trübswetter

published in: Empirica, 2007, 34 (4), 371-395

IZA Discussion Paper No. 971

Creative Destruction and Productivity Growth in an Emerging Economy: Evidence from Slovenian Manufacturing

Jan De Loecker, Jozef Konings

published as 'Job reallocation and productivity growth in a post-socialist economy: Evidence from Slovenian manufacturing' in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2006, 22 (2), 388-408

IZA Discussion Paper No. 970

Fighting “Low Equilibria” by Doubling the Minimum Wage? Hungary’s Experiment

Gabor Kertesi, János Köllő

IZA Discussion Paper No. 901

Do Market Pressures Induce Economic Efficiency: The Case of Slovenian Manufacturing, 1994-2001

Peter F. Orazem, Milan Vodopivec

published in: Southern Economic Journal, 2009, 76(2), 553-576

IZA Discussion Paper No. 900

Compensating Differentials in Emerging Labor and Housing Markets: Estimates of Quality of Life in Russian Cities

Mark C. Berger, Glenn C. Blomquist, Klara Sabirianova Peter

published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 63 (1), 2008, 25 - 55

IZA Discussion Paper No. 893